Example sentences of "children [adv prt] of the [noun] " in BNC.

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1	She did not even notice when Connor and Ruth took the children out of the kitchen , closing the door softly behind them ; she could see nothing but the hope and the love that shone in Ernest 's patient , trusting face .
2	An injunction was later issued stopping her taking the children out of the state .
3	It was a ritual that distressed Anna Essinger and her staff but , given the pressure to move the children out of the camp so that others could take their places , nobody was able to come up with a better alternative to what was known as ‘ the market ’ .
4	The Government sent the children out of the cities so they should n't be bombed .
5	Inside there was a climbing frame , Lego roundabout , swings and a wooden catapult for firing naughty children out of the castle .
6	Mucky hands and a fat bank balance would be a way of life for the first generation of nouveaux-riches manufacturers ; but with a bit of care the brass itself could be used to buy their children out of the world of muck altogether .
7	Apprenticeship was , however , a youth as much as a class phenomenon , and although Horace Walpole might remark of Vauxhall pleasure garden that everybody from " the Duke of Grafton down to children out of the Foundling hospital " went there , an admission fee of 2s 6d a head was a considerable barrier , though some women from the lower orders went there in the way of business .
8	It is likely that this is caused not by having less religious education , but by the fact that they tend to be peopled by children of classes who have traditionally fewer links with the church , and include parents making active decisions to keep their children out of the clergy 's grasp .
9	He was tired of respectability , tired of the constant tug-of-war to pull the lively minds of children out of the fields and hedges , where wisdom and philosophy began , into the abstractions of formal learning .

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